Improvement in fences



UNITED STATES PATENT OEiTcEa JOHN A. TORNWALL, OF OKOLONA, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 2 l 1,067, dated December 17, 1878 application filed November 2, 1878.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ALFRED TORN- WALL, of the city of Okolona, in the county of Chickasaw and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon.`

Figure l of the drawings is arepresentation of a side elevation of my fence, and Fig. 2 is an lend view of the same.

My invention relates to a fence made of rails, stakes, braces, te., for farm and other purposes; and the novelty consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

I form my fence of rails laid with one end on or near the surface of the ground and the other extending upward at an angle of fortyfive degrees, more or less. The posts are placed alternately on each side of the fence, and each post is so braced from its own side as to press it against the inclined rails. At the junction of these braces and posts I bind in every alternate rail with a tie of wire, or its equivalent, and the crotch made by the extended upward ends of such posts and braces receives the intervening rails, as shown.

Referring to the drawings, A are the posts upon one side ofthe fence, and B those upon the other side, arranged alternately, as shown, and adapted to embrace and bind the inclined rails C O'. 'Ihe posts A are braced by rails A', which are y secured by wires, withes, and the like to the post A at a point designated by a, and these ties embrace at the junction c each alternate rail C', and the upper portions of the post A and brace A' form a crotch, fr, which receives the alternate rails O..

This arrangement and construction form a very iirm, cheap fence.

The posts B are held up to the fence by braces B', and are arranged similarly to the posts A A', but on the opposite side of the fence.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure- JOHN ALFRED TORNWALL.

Witnesses:

L. NEWBERT, J. P PETTERssorL 

